A Pod is a group of one or more containers with shared storage, network and lifecycle and is the basic deployable unit in Kubernetes.
Each Pod is scheduled on the same Node, and remains there until termination or deletion.
In this note i will show how to get Pods running on a specific Node using the kubectl command.
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Get Pods on Node using Kubectl
Get a list of all Nodes in Kubernetes:
$ kubectl get nodes $ kubectl get nodes -o wide
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-o wide, --output wide |
Set output format to “wide” |
To get Pods running on a specific Node in the default Namespace for the current context:
$ kubectl get pods --field-selector spec.nodeName=<node_name> $ kubectl get pods --field-selector spec.nodeName=<node_name> -o wide